Punjab Letters of Administration and Succession Certificates Act, 2021

From: 2021-05-17 - To: 0000-00-00 An Act to provide for an efficacious and speedy mechanism for issuance of Letters of Administration and Succession Certificates. It is expedient to provide for an efficacious and speedy mechanism for facilitating issuance of Letters of Administration and Succession Certificates, aimed at curtailing fraud and forgery. Be it enacted by Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as follows: 1. Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be cited as the Punjab Letters of Administration and Succession Certificates Act 2021. (2) It extends to whole of the Punjab. (3) This Act or any part thereof shall come into force on such dates as the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint. 2. Definitions.- In this Act: (a) “Authority” means the National Database and Registration Authority established under section 3 of the National Database and Registration Authority Ordinance, 2000 (VIII of 2000); (b) “factual controversy” includes an objection by legal heirs or by any claimant of legal heirship, any dispute which may arise in establishing the identity of legal heirs which is not resolvable by the Authority or any situation, matter or event requiring adjudication or recording of evidence or where at least one of the legal heirs is a minor; (c) “Government” means Government of the Punjab; (d) “legal heir” means a person who has entitlement to a share in the property of the deceased; (e) “prescribed” means prescribed by the rules; and (f) “rules” means the rules made under this Act; 3. Issuance of Letters of Administration or Succession Certificates.- Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Authority may issue Letters of Administration or Succession Certificates, as the case may be, to the legal heirs of a deceased in respect of immovable or movable property, in accordance with the Family Registration Certificate maintained by the Authority. 4. Establishment of Succession Facilitation Unit.- (1) The Authority shall establish a Succession Facilitation Unit for the purpose of receipt, processing and assessment of applications for grant of Letters of Administration and…